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Alfred North Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938): A Reader's Guide This book will inspire a child-like wonder, I guarantee it.

David Pollard Jason Hoskins Chris Satoor​​ "The history of thought shows that false inter­pretations of observed facts enter into the records of their observation. Thus both theory, and received notions as to fact, are in doubt." -Whitehead (PR, p. 9)

Here are some more photos from our September #conference commemorating the 100 year anniversary of Alfred North Whitehead’s arrival at Harvard University. Read reflections by Matt Segall (☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽) from the conference: buff.ly/4ev3nIo

“Metaphysics is nothing but the description of the generalities which apply to all the details of practice.” -Alfred North Whitehead (Process and Reality, p. 13)

“It is dangerous to neglect Plato‘s intuitions.” -Whitehead (AoI 150)

“No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.” -Whitehead (AoI 154)

“Our datum is the actual world, including ourselves; and this actual world spreads itself for observation in the guise of the topic of our immediate experience.” -Whitehead (PR 4)

whose misplaced concreteness is this?

"There is a constant reaction between specialism & common sense. It is the part of the special sciences to modify common sense. Philosophy is the welding of imagination & common sense into a restraint upon specialists, & also into an enlargement of their imaginations." PR 17

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"After the initial basis of a rational life, with a civilized language, has been laid, all productive thought has proceeded either by the poetic insight of artists, or by the imaginative elaboration of schemes of thought capable of utilization as logical premises." (PR 9)

"The posi­tion of metaphysics in the development of culture cannot be understood without remembering that no verbal statement is the adequate expression of a proposition." (PR 13)

“Christiana Morgan was not afraid to pursue her sexuality. One of her early lovers was Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel's first President, and later in life she had affairs with both the writer Lewis Mumford and the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.” -NYT

"Altie conveys the pure joy in the living process of becoming conscious, the life joy in the formulation for its own sake. ... He is simply speaking out of his own life and being" and not imposing it on others.” -Christiana Morgan describing Alfred North Whitehead in her journal

Whitehead lecturing at Wellesley College in October or November 1937 reminding his audience that he is only aiming to offer "a modern rendering of the oldest civilized reflections on the development of the universe from the perspective of life on this earth."

"Each fact is more than its forms & each form participates throughout the world of facts. The definiteness of fact is due to its forms but the individual fact is a creature & creativity is the ultimate behind all forms, inexplicable by forms, & conditioned by its creatures" PR 30